GCP Data Architect (Senior)

**Job Description:** As a GCP Data Architect at Infogain, your role involves designing and owning the end-to-end analytics architecture on GCP to ensure alignment with business objectives, security requirements, cost efficiency, and performance targets. Your responsibilities include:

• Implementing a Medallion architecture:
• Ingesting Bronze (Raw) data on GCS via JDBC from Oracle/Teradata. - Performing Silver (Curated) transformations using PySpark on Dataproc. - Optimizing Gold data in BigQuery for analytics and BI. - Defining canonical data models, storage formats (Parquet/ORC/Delta/Iceberg), and partitioning/clustering strategies. - Leading the migration from SAS to PySpark, establishing coding standards, and optimizing Spark jobs. - Building JDBC ingestion pipelines with CDC, robust retries, schema evolution, and orchestrating workflows via Cloud Composer/Airflow and CI/CD. - Architecting BigQuery models, managing cost/performance, enforcing SLAs, and securely integrating with BI tools using RLS/CLS. - Defining ML Ops workflows on Vertex AI, including feature pipelines, automated training, deployment, and model monitoring for drift/bias. - Implementing centralized governance via Dataplex (catalog, policy tags), IAM least privilege, VPC-SC, and data security/compliance controls. - Driving cost optimization, reliability/SRE practices, monitoring, DR/BCP, and FinOps governance. - Providing architectural leadership, mentoring teams, setting standards, and creating roadmaps, ADRs, and executive-level communication. **Qualifications:**
• 15+ years of experience in data/analytics engineering with 7+ years of architecting solutions on the public cloud and 5+ years hands-on with GCP. - Proven delivery of Medallion architectures on GCP with GCS + Dataproc + BigQuery at enterprise scale. - Expertise in PySpark, Dataproc, and BigQuery. - Hands-on experience with Vertex AI, Dataplex, Oracle, Teradata, CI/CD, data modeling, and data quality. - Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills. - Google certifications: Professional Cloud Architect and/or Qualified Data Engineer. - Experience modernizing SAS workloads and knowledge of streaming technologies. - Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent. **About the Company:** Infogain is a human-centered digital platform and software engineering company based in Silicon Valley. They work with Fortune companies and digital natives in various industries using technologies such as cloud, microservices, automation, IoT, and artificial intelligence. Infogain accelerates experience-led transformation in the delivery of digital platforms and is a Microsoft Gold Partner and Azure Expert Managed Services Provider. Infogain has offices in California, Washington, Texas, the UK, the UAE, and Singapore, with delivery centers in Seattle, Houston, Austin, Krakw, Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Pune, and Bengaluru. **Job Description:** As a GCP Data Architect at Infogain, your role involves designing and owning the end-to-end analytics architecture on GCP to ensure alignment with business objectives, security requirements, cost efficiency, and performance targets. Your responsibilities include: